Culinary Diplomacy (and other adventures)

cbracy:

I posted something on Twitter the other day that got a bunch of attention, and I realized I wanted to clarify what I meant. Here’s what I wrote:

“Silicon Valley’s problem in a nutshell: crazed about Instagram’s ToS, not a peep about FISA reauthorization.”

I meant to capture something…

Catherine Bracy on “the tension between Silicon Valley’s impact on democracy and its utter lack of interest in or understanding of the institutions and systems of government its companies do business in.” She’s got a real finger on why, as Jim Gilliam once asked, “the Internet has brought democracy to all of these different industries, and no one was trying to figuring out how to bring democracy to democracy itself.”